But my time is free and I still have £766 in my pocket and a new'ish' riddle bucket. So it might have been more cost effective and cheaper to buy a new. New fabricated hitch fully welded in placeīucket all finished and welded up, with all the 3/4" x 1/2" riddle bars, spaced at 2" centresīucket waiting for bucket teeth to be refitted.Ĭompleted bucket which took 3 Days to modify and materials coming in at just under £100 including the bucket, welding gas, 4.8m-3/4"x 1/2" black steel, paint etc. The new Harford Hitch welded to bucket, hopefully my welding will be strong enough. Hitch back of the bucket was repaired badly in the past so this section was also cut out.Ī Harford hitch was fabricated from plate and welded to the bucket and a piece of 1" by 1/2" was formed on my hydraulic press to the radius of the back of the bucket to create a spine. Had to weld bolt in place to remove nutsĭamaged and cracked bucket back, plasma cut out. The photos below will explain the rest of the modifications. I paid a little more than I wanted at £33.60 which included tax and commission. Had a look at what was left and this old tatty, dirty and abused 35mm pin JCB bucket was perfect. This was to inquire if they would be interested in selling me an unsold bucket cheap There were a few unsold buckets so we had now reached Plan E. The bucket I bid on and won, which I thought would be perfect for the job wasn't when I went to collect it, it was firstly to small and secondly to good to cut up. By moving towards a smarter, more automated. For decades, Miller has been committed to product innovation and have continued to develop their range of buckets to suit all applications.
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This was to buy the cheapest 600mm wide bucket i could and modify into a riddle bucket. Miller UK offers an extensive range of British made buckets suitable across all applications from compact machines to extreme mining environments. My local auction house has a plant sale monthly and there were plenty of digger buckets there, but none with a Harford Hitch (Plan C). At a price of £680 plus tax and delivery (approx £866.00) an alternative solution was needed (Plan B). I first looked to buy a secondhand one with a Harford safe lock hitch with no luck (Plan A). so a riddle bucket would be a great addition to remove the larger stone. I am in the process of rebuilding a house on a side of a mountain and the ground is full of rocks.